Assignment with potty cornish. Listen wherever you get your podcasts when welcome back to our Special Coverage of Donald Trumps criminal trial. We are of course, staying on top of all of todays major elements. But right now, we have some major Breaking News coming out of the Middle East Hamas has agreed to a Ceasefire Agreement for opposed by both egypt and khader. We know israel help craft this deal. But its not fully agreed to it, at least not yet. We have reached out to Prime Minister benjamin, a tiny house to office in jerusalem. We are awaiting official response from the Israeli Government. Will have a live report from jerusalem adjusted moment, but i want to make sure that as everyone appreciates whats going on, hamas has announced that is had dea the head of its political euro, has told both cutlery and egyptian mediators that hamas has agreed to their proposal for a Ceasefire Agreement much more in this coming up a very Significant Development for right now, there we want to track whats going on in Donald Trumps four week historic hush money criminal trial, a key witness, just spent about three hours taking jurors inside the Trump Organizations bookkeeping and specifically the reimbursement of former trump leuser and fixer Michael Cohen after cohen fronted the money for the Stormy Daniels hush money deal. Briana killer is joining us right now. Shes outside the courthouse in new york city. Briana update our viewers well, this morning, wall, former trump or controller, jeffrey mecole, walked through cohens monthly payouts, which were wired for im former President Trumps personal account. Those are payments that began after trump was in the white house. And im here now with cnn Chief Domestic Correspondent fill mattingly, along with sana when legal analysts karan friedman, agnes low, shes council any firm representing Michael Cohen, but she does not have contact with him, does not work on his case. And there are no restrictions on what she can say about this case. And karan we should know right now, the court has broken for lunch. Theyre going to be back around two 15 eastern, but this break comes out testimony that was key to these charges of falsifying records. Yes. So mr. Mecole was the controller of the Trump Organization longterm employee for over 30 years, and he was key is a key witness here to talk about how these payments were made. Dont forget this is a falsifying Business Records case and its all about the record keeping. And so far, we havent heard this link to donald trump, which is a little bit surprising and we were thinking that he was going to say, yeah, of course he was involved and yes, he did it. Lets see what they say on redirect and how the prosecution gets back up again. But i think the defense did a good job at neutralizing his testimony and saying things like, you didnt have many options in the dropdown menus antiquated systems. So if it said attorneys fees, thats because it came out of the dropdown menu. You didnt have you didnt have an option for whatever this was reading Michael Cohen testimony karan, if he is the only witness who does provide that link, will that be problematic at all well certainly it would be great to have more direct evidence to corroborate that donald trump did do that. Theres a lot of Circumstantial Evidence that the prosecution has brought up as well, that donald trump knew that this was was what it was four, i mean, its its clear a crime was committed and its clear what happened. Did donald trump do it . Thats the thing that i think i think is what is missing so fascinating today from the prosecution, side is how they walk through structurally how the alleged crime was committed, and how exactly it happened with the actual exhibit showing the checks themselves, showing the email, showing how 35,000 Monthly Payments were paid out, showing how little it resembled. Pick a traditional legal payment or legal retainer would actually look like within their process. And then underscoring that The Tropic Counting System Pre Presidency was antiquated. I believe its the actual word that was used to karens point. And this has been, i think thematics throughout the course of four weeks of this trial up to this point, who has been able to directly say, i in this donald trump having a direct Direct Action in this happening so far, nobody still it is very clear based on how the prosecution is built the case that trump as a lot of control, its not all the control over all of these things. Sinks were sent from his personal accounts. These checks from cent from his personal accounts. And so everything seems to imply thats the case. But once again, another official or another individual involved in how this all happened, not being able to directly say he had any contact with trump on this issue are really much at all, i think over the course of that was what the yeah the crossexamination really got it. What do you think about how this is sort of pulling the curtain back on the business dealings of trumps business but also im pulling the curtain back on how things were going at the white house it was a bit chaotic. If we a bit off the cuff, it was driven largely though we dont have documentation of this specifically in this case, but it was largely driven by whatever the guy who ran the operation water, you know, very well how the Trump White House operated. It was not traditional externally, like an executive branch. Its not traditionally like a wellspring was run and it seems and i think weve seen lots of evidence of this, or at least anecdotes tied to this about the Trump Organization over the series of data okay so it wasnt an operation that was driven by one individual and it was designed to give him what he wanted for the business that he wanted to run. That was very much how the white house operate. I think whats fascinating in the testimony today is how you see the shift in the Trump Organization according to the witness today, when delta went to the white house recognizing that systems werent that great, they were antiquated, recognizing that people who were running the systems were people who had to sign off on things perhaps werent doing it anymore. A traditional or functional manner. And said, delta up that to the white house. Well see what the jiri makes all of this and well also see who the next witnesses ultimately after this, well see redirect a lot of surprises as we dont i always know who the next witness is going to be filling karan, if you can stand by with me. Wolf, i want to go back to you. Obviously we have some real major Breaking News or brianna now were following Breaking News in the middle east. Hamas says a downstairs agreed to a Ceasefire Agreement proposed by egypt and qatar. Were waiting to see if israel will accept the deal as well. Beth center is a former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for our shes joining us on the phone. So whats your reaction beth, let me just read to you a little bit from the statement that mousereleased the statement said that this battle hernia, the head of the Political Bureau of hamas, quote, made a phone call to the khardori Prime Minister shake mohammed bin abdullah rockman. Funny and to the Egyptian Ministry of intelligence, mr. Abu abbas kemal. And inform them of hamas is agreement to their purpose causal regarding a Ceasefire Agreement, whats your reaction . Beth well, i think that first we have to hold our breath here, but i do think that the israelis are likely to sign on since this is the same terms as far as we know to what they have signed on earlier. So im actually pretty hopeful. I think that the Military Pressure and this idea that the Rafat Operation was about to go forward may have made the difference the. Last the framework proposal that we know about beth had the release of 2033 israeli hostages over several weeks in exchange for a temporary ceasefire and the release of Palestinian Prisoners being held by israel and that was supposed to result in a restoration of sustainable calm during which the remaining hostages captive is really soldiers in the bodies of hostages would also be exchanged for the release of more Palestinian Prisoners. That was an earlier proposal that was clearly discussed with both khader and egypt. If that is the plan right now, and if if pastas agreed to that, that would be a Huge Development and absolutely Huge Development. And i think that part of the issue here is that yahya sinwar is as far as we know, still hold up in Southern Gaza and the Political Leadership, omnia, who is the one who said publicly that they were go they have trouble communicating its hard for them to do that, but also theyre not completely on the same page and they dont have the same interests in some ways, given that sinwar potentially staring down the Barrel Of A Gun On and also the party who wants to walk wave from this and survive. So it could be a very big deal and i think that this delay may have been part of the discussion and trying to hear back from a Sinwar Inside Of Gaza thats standby. I want to go to Jeremy Diamond. Hes joining us live from jerusalem right now jeremy, has there been any reaction from the Israeli Government to what the hamas has Just Announced . Well, if there has not yet, and so we are applying a lot of caveats to this, this news that is just breaking out this hour and that is wolf that we have now heard from hamas and a statement that they posted to their Telegram Channels saying that they have agreed to the proposal regarding a Ceasefire Agreement. Its smile hernia, hamas is political leaders speaking to the kadoorie Prime Minister as well as the egyptian intelligence chief to relay that message. But as you said, we have yet, to hear from the Israeli Government. Officially, we have yet to hear from The Americans, from the egyptians, from the khader ease. And so we do have to caveat this, this news, which does carry with it quite a bit of promise and hope here, hope, of course, for the hundreds of thousands of people in gaza who have endured unspeakable horrors over seven months of war as well as for the families of those hostages who remain captive in gaza who have hoped and prayed for the day that they will get to hold their loved ones in their arms. Once again. But what we do know wolf is that there has been an egyptian framework on the table over the course of the last week which officials on all sides that had had a lot of hope that it could potentially bring these two sides together. In particular, because israel did make several key concessions, including allowing the return, the unrestricted return of palestinians to Northern Gaza as part of this latest framework, something that they had resisted this stood for some time and had been a major Sticking Point. This Framework Agreement that was on a table last week would see the release of some 20 to 33 is really hostages over several weeks of a ceasefire. And then ultimately similarly leading to a longerterm cease fire, perhaps a oneyear cease fire between israel and hamas. Israel had not agreed to every point in this framework, but it had they did have significant input in this work as it was then presented to hamas weve watched wolf over the last few days as that optimism around those negotiations had quickly soured, it appeared that hamas was sticking to its demand that an end to the war altogether that israel commit to that as part of this agreement something that israel has refused to do. But now hours after the Israeli Military began dropping Evacuation Leaflets on Eastern Raffa, offering 100,000 civilians to flee hamas. Now putting in a statement hours later that they have agreed to this initial proposal. We dont know whether that evacuated Patient Order and raffa was the key factor that change tomas his mind. We also dont know whether any major changes to this egyptian framework have been made in order to get hamas to agree to it. And like i said, we have yet to here from all of the other parties involved. So as much as there is a promise and hope in this statement from hamas, there is certainly not certainty at this stage. Jeremy, i want you to stand by mj lee or White House Correspondent has getting more information. Us reaction. I take it mj, the president , President Biden, had a conversation, a Phone Conversation with Prime Minister benjamin, the tiny earlier today. Is that right . Thats, right we know President Biden and israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke earlier today. And of course, these ongoing Hostage Deal Negotiations was one of them many topics that the two leaders discussed, as has been the case for all of their recent Phone Conversations. But what we are waiting for right now is an official white house and us its reaction to this news that hamas has apparently agreed to a temporary Ceasefire Deal. So well bring that to you whenever we have word of that but i heard jeremy in his last conversation with you, really leaning into the various caveats that are at play here. And i do think that kind of note of caution from here in washington is wise as well. That is just to say that we have had moments like this before in the months of negotiations to get to a temporary ceasefire and hostages released deal where we appear to be he on the brink of a deal and other moments where we appear to be on the brink of these talks completely falling apart. So again, as we wait for official us ford and reaction from the israeli sayyed to this news from hamas that they are agreeing to this deal. I do think again, just leaning into that note of caution is definitely worth doing. But what us officials have been doing, of course, in recent weeks, is very much up pushing hard for this deal to get done because the administration believes that this is really the only clear way to eventually getting to an end to this war. But i cant underscore enough how important it is for us officials try to get to that point, try to get to the point of hostages coming out. And this this conflict that has been going on for so many months to come to an end. And of course, a big part of that as avoiding a major raffa encouraging from taking place. And of course, these rayleigh have been warning for weeks and weeks now, but they are getting increasingly prepared to go ahead and take that step if this deal does not come together wolf is the white house. Theyll planning a Press Briefing at the bottom of the hour and about 15 minutes or so from now, mj . Yeah, that Press Briefing has actually been pushed back to 2 00. So that is when we will hear from National Security Council Spokesperson john kirby and where we will get an opportunity to press him on all of these latest developments. And of course, well be bringing that to you as well, wolf. I suspect that will be the First Official white house reaction to this hamas statement that theyve accepted the proposal put forward by qatar and by egypt, well see what they would kirby says at the top of the hour, mj dont go too far away. This is major Breaking News whos that were following right now, hamas says it has agreed to a new temporary Ceasefire Proposal put forward by egypt and khader will get more reaction from jerusalem, from the Israeli Government, much more of our breaking News Coverage coming up well be right back. Now. Theyre shooting play into the how shall you, its happening from him and theyre giving orders to disperse. Any feels like a lot happened kevin bought to tape. 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We have reached out to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is office and are awaiting a response to see where israel stands on this. Lets go straighten out and nick robertson. He is its in london. London or pardon me. Nick, what do we know about how israel is viewing this at this point . Theres been such a wide gap on v key issue here which is a permanent ceasefire, which is what hamas has demanded, and israel says, isnt on the table, its been a salami slice deal, if you will, broken down into a period of six weeks of truce for an exchange of hostages than in another six weeks of truce, during which period, a final ceasefire could have been agreed, but but that really big Sticking Point as far as we know, remains a Sticking Point precisely what hamas is saying that they have agreed to. We dont know the details. Theyre saying theyve agreed to a plan put forward, proposed by khader and egypt. Now we know over the weekend that there were negotiations in egypt and the hamas. Were given the egyptian proposal. We understood that that proposal was simply a framework that even if that proposal that framework proposal was agreed there would still be days worth of discussions hammering out the details. And of course, the devil is in the detail. And i think its worth noting that in any negotiation, both sides are trying to unbalance the other. And it appeared earlier on this day when israel was dropping flyers over raffa telling part of the Puzzle Prolation 100,000 people they needed to move. It really seemed as if israel was potentially going to go ahead with as much talked about Ground Operation and raffa psychological pressure, if you will, on hamas because Prime Minister netanyahu has said, all along the idf has said all along, it is Military Pressure on hamas that will get the release of the hostile suggests. But at this stage when israel appears on the front foot for a potential offensive into raffa, which is not an easy consideration. Takes a lot of resources, a lot of organization. Now, we hear from hamas that theyve agreed to, as far as an unspecified deal, we dont know the details. If we could know those details, we would know how realistic it is that israel might respond in the affirmative, but it does say in that hamas has im so decision to push for a cease fire and gaza, that moment, hamas realized that actually they had pressure that they didnt think they could bring to bear on israel. And weve since then, weve seen protests at universities across campuses in the United States europe oxford, and cambridge today in the uk and france and other countries as well and for hamas, that, that signals a support for the palestinian cause. With pr, Real Political Clout that they havent had before now, its temporary political clout. This is an Election Year in many countries here, the United States, for example, but for hamas, that seemed for a while to have hardened their position and they felt perhaps they were getting sympathies that they werent otherwise getting from much of the work. So where does that where does that leave them today . We know that their head or their Political Office in gaza, the person sin why the person is draw most wants to either capture or kill is a very astute negotiator, a very astute study of politics, not only in israel, but, around the world. So is are they trying to level lets break this down again. What we understood about the deal was that it was going to be a framework with potentially three, six weeks during the first six weeks of a temporary Ceasefire Hamas would release initially, we thought 40 and then the number came down to 33 the children the female hostages, the elderly hostages, and those who are sick. Now and part of that equation was how many palestinians would be released and how quickly gardens could go back to the north of gaza. And israel didnt want that because it feared that would allow her master regained some control on the ground. And hamas didnt want israel staying inside of gaza because they realized that there was a potential for another offensive. And in that second phase, all the living male hostages were supposed to be released. None of these details are really been sort of on the surface over the past few weeks of these negotiations. Why . Because it does seem to have come down to the question of permanent cease fire and test im pretty cease fire and i think until again, until we can see some daylight on that issue, were not really going to know where which way israel is going to move on this, but certainly sinwar, hamas, or put israel in naaf, i wouldnt say a difficult position, but theyve got them potentially on the back foot at the moment. Yeah, certainly trying to put israel in a difficult position and we do not know what hamas is agreed to here. We do not know how israel is going to see it. Nick, thank you so much for that from london, lets go now to the State Department and Kylie Out Would kylie what are you hearing there . Well, listen, were waiting here, briana for the State Department to conduct its daily briefing. It was supposed to happen about half an hour ago. Were still waiting for an update. Its clear that us officials are trying to figure out what is going on here and how they respond to this news from hamas. Given we dont know the zack details as nick was saying, of the proposal that hamas has said that they have accepted here the last time that we heard from the Secretary Of State on these ongoing negotiations between hamas and israel through of course, the interlocutors in egypt. And qatar was last week when he was traveling in the region Secretary Of State essentially said the onus is on hamas. Hamas is standing in the way of the deal because he said the current iteration of the deal that had been put on the table crafted by the egyptians, but had been reviewed by the israelis, made significant compromises on behalf of the israelis, essentially making the case that that deal was the best deal that hamas was going to get and saying very clearly that hamas should accept it. So if hamas has accepted that version of the deal, this would be a Major Development and would put the ball back in israels court. We just dont know if its exactly those terms that hamas says that they are green two right now. And the other thing i want to note is that us officials have been saying that whats on the table is of course, that temporary ceasefire that would be an exchange for the release of those hostages. But of course, the hope from us officials is that that temporary ceasefire would turn into more last stinks ceasefire and then turn into a piece. Of course that creates some tension with israelis who have been saying for quite some time now that they are hoping that there is, of course, this agreement to release these hostages, but they also are very clear in saying that their operation in raffa will go ahead no matter what yeah there are just so many ifs here. We need to be clear about that. As you said, kylie, thank you, nick. Thank you so much to you for your reporting ahead. We have much more on our Breaking News is we are awaiting the state Department Briefing hamas agreeing to a cease fire proposal. But exactly what in this proposal, are they agreeing to will have more after a quick break stay with us ill scoop is torres was at the absolute peak of his celebrity in olympic heroes shocking murder trial, we learned of a much darker individual. How would really happen with jesse l. Martin sandi nine on cnn . 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And raffa source familiar with this operation tells you the intention was exactly what were seeing now to put a lot of pressure on our to agree to a new Ceasefire Deal. I want to bring in cnn Global Affairs analysts kim dozer, whos joining us. Kim, first of all, what are you what are you . I think were hearing from why do you think were hearing from hamas but still awaiting official reaction from the government of israel immediately wolf im suspicious because in the past covering other rounds of Israeli Palestinian peace talks, whenever you hear from one side and you dont hear from both together, you have to wonder if youre being spun what has hamas actually agreed to or has it just agreed to something that cut are an egypt proposed that israel hasnt signed onto yet. And by doing that, does it help to buy time to delay what seems to be israels imminent Military Operation. And raffa, that is aimed in hunting down all the remaining top leaders of hamas inside gaza territory. Well, kevin, do you think israel potentially could push ahead with the Military Offensive and raffa the very, very soon with a Ceasefire Proposal on the table i think what we have right now is confusion, confusion inside the capitals, in dc israel, as everyone tries to figure out what exactly has hamas agreed to. And in the meantime, what weve seen in the past is israel just keeps pushing ahead because as you said the pressure seems to be working. Hamas is blinked it seems to have agreed to something. Now, we just have to figure out what but this is the hope for the Hostage Families that at least 33 hostages might get out in the first tranche. It is also a hopeful sign for the people in gaza, especially those people in rafah injured kids, et cetera, who are living in tents. Its going to be very hard to move them to the area that the Israeli Defense forces have specified, which is on the coast near the sea according to various who and other organizations trying to provide aid. There doesnt have good sanitation or water supplies. So anything that delays that Military Operation from their perspective, is a good thing. Lets just hope this really is legitimate. And a reason then to hope for the future. I source kim familiar with all these negotiations, all these talks underway right now, just tell cnn this and im quoting from this source, the ball is now firmly and Benjamin Ateneo was cord close quote what do you think . He is likely to do . The Prime Minister of israel and again israel has to find out exactly what it signed up to. Is it the proposal that israel put forth to the qatari and egyptian negotiators, or have there been changes made to it . But this is designed a move like this is designed to make netanyahu look like the bad guy. If they take a look at what being proposed and it has things like perhaps a doubling in the number of Palestinian Prisoners that need to be released according to hamas, in the first phase, these kinds kind of small details that end up being huge details because every single one of those Palestinian Prisoners released, theres a process that you have to go through on the israeli judicial sayyed, where you give anyone that those prisoners have wronged. If theyre convicted murderers, the families of those murdered have to be able to say okay this person being released for this cause so there are lots of details that have to be fulfilled on the Israelis Sayyed within their own government. Thats why i think youre seeing this pause to see exactly what hamas thinks israel is agreeing to our Global Affairs analysts, kim dozer. Thank you very much for that update will have much more on the Breaking News on a possible Ceasefire Deal. In the middle east. And well take a quick break. 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I want to go now to cnns alex mark you were learning about the role that the us played in convincing hamas to accept this agreement. Alex and of course, we still do not have a response from israel. We still there are a lot of details to work out, but what do you know about the us role here . Well those are two very important things. Briana, we dont have the details of the response and we certainly do not yet have an israeli response to this, but without question, the us has been a central player in all of this for the past six or seven months, alongside mediators, qatar and in egypt and bill burns, the ci hey, director has been the main american official who has been in charge of helping to negotiate this ceasefire in the course of the past few weeks and months to try to get this ceasefire across the leyen it does appear that we are close to that line, but whether it has been crossed that remains to be seen. We learned on friday, briana that bill burns had traveled out to the region specifically to cairo, where so many of the recent talks had been taking place. A hamas delegation was also sent to cairo on saturday. And then we learned that burns and moved onto the qatari capital, doha, essentially doing this shuttle diplomacy, engaging with all the other counterparts to try to get this finalized. Now of course the us does not deal directly with hamas because its a terrorist organization designated by the United States. But you did have the us head of Central Intelligence in the same places as these hamas delegations, both in cairo and in doha. So no doubt burns has been trying to get this deal to a place where it could be accepted by both sides. Hes been working feverish lay on this for the past few months. We understand from our colleague, Becky Anderson that while in doha yesterday, that the ci director had a daylong meeting with the qatari Prime Minister sir, who has been his main opposite number, if you will. And in these talks, and then i was told that he actually extended his stay in doha. He had earlier plans to go to israel, but but stayed in doha instead. So no doubt Bill Burns Has been central and trying to get this deal through whether that will actually happen we really have to wait and see, but as one source told becky, the ball is in israels court, brianna and alex, i should mention we have just learned from an israeli source there reviewing at this point what hamas has agreed to. So they say they are reviewing this and they are working out a response, which obviously is what we are awaiting to see what happens here. Alex mark. Right. Thank you for that reporting on the us role lets go to cnns nic robertson, who isnt in london. Make i know that you have been speaking to your sources as we learn that israel is reviewing this which is not at this point a dismissal. They are looking to see what hamas has agreed to here what are you hearing . Yeah. And i think its worth when when we try to analyze whats happening here, its not just that hamas and israel have positions on this. There are things that katara is one out of the deal. There are things that egypt, one side of the deal, and obviously things the United States wants to see come out of the deal as well as well as other regional players. So there are many hands that are shaping the way this moves on long and the mediators like egypt and qatar have quite a significant role to play. They talk directly to the parties involved, the parties, israel and hamas and hamas saves, dont talk directly to each other. So they have a role and they have an influence and they have a way that they can help shape so the source that ive been speaking two, tells me that what sml honey or the political head in doha of hamas is agreeing to may not be the entirety of what israel, once but the source is also indicating that there may still be something that could be added onto this. Lets say an amendment or something that could be added on to this current discussion that could push it over the line. And if we go back just a few days over the weekend, we were talking about the potential for a Framework Agreement and if that framework was agreed, which did seem to come close and then didnt that there would still be days worth of talking to get through the details now is the hitch over part of the framework is the hitch over part of the detail. We dont know. But what i also understand from this source was that over the weekend as part of these negotiations, there was pressure on cater to provide some guarantees of some unspecified sort to try to help get the deal through from the original egyptian proposed framework. So perhaps part of those discussions that were learning, Bill Burns Has, has had now with the qatari Prime Minister are really influential figure obviously in the negotiations himself. As well as separately with hamas the kataib has been the interlocutors thf rlere, of cou, has potentially bint to bridge that part of the problem. And maybe weve just the ball has just moved a little bit and now there may be this amendment that is yet to come, but i have to say this is unclear. And i think the sauces that im speaking to dont have the complete picture. Again, i come back to that point. That everyone whos trying to buy, i need to cut and im sorry, we need to go to the State Department where they are discussing this at the daily daily briefing. So i can confirm that hamas has issued a response. We are reviewing that response now and discussing it with our partners in the region. As you know, Director Burns is in the raesian working on this in real time. We will be discussing this response with our partners over the coming hours. We continue to believe that a hostage deal is in the best interests of the israeli people. Its in the best interests of the Palestinian People. It would bring an immediate ceasefire. It would allow increased movement of humanitarian assistance and so were going to continue to work to try to reach one you havent made any yet made any determination about whether this is whether theyre theyre accepting what is on the table or are there accepting something that is different. We have only received the response in the last hour or 90 minutes. And as i said, are going through it now and discussing it with discussing it with partners in the region. So i dont want to characterize the nature of that response just yet. Good. Thanks. Shannon. Good. I just go ahead thank you. There been some reports that from israel that perhaps hamas agreed to a proposal that was put together by egypt and khader that was softer than the initial three mark that was in the works last week is it possible that there has been a different proposal that the us is not involved with the tracking. So ive seen those suggestions ive seen some of those reports and i think i hope youll understand that because we are still reviewing the response that is come in and because we were working on this in real time and trying to reach an agreement. Im just going to decline to comment on detail about any of those reports. Were gonna be discussing this response with our partners in the region in the hours and it remains are top priority to try to reach a Ceasefire Agreement that will lead to the release of hostages that will allow a surge of humanitarian assistance. Both into gaza and allow it to move around inside gaza. But i dont want to comment on any of the various reports about what they mightve been responding to until weve been able to go through it in detail and come to a full understanding and discuss it with our partners. And can you say at this point maybe you cant, but hamas is political way and their militant wing are they the same page here . Do you feel like this is a response at elisa indicates where the entire group is. Im just not going to im just not going to speak for hamas at all as we have said for some time, there has been a significant ofir on the table. The ball has been in hamas this ct. We have made clear that they should accept that offer, that israel made significant compromises showed that they wanted to reach an agreement that would lead to the release of hostages that would bring an immediate ceasefire. And we have hoped that hamas would take the deal that was on the table. Now, as to whats in their response, what it looks like, were going to review that and withhold judgment till weve had a chance to conduct a full review. This the threatened is really offensive and rafah, hours before this, there are lots of reports about evacuations. I just report israel talking about evacuations from raffa. How does this whats the us message of this now do you think that israel should hold off on any operations raffa, as we discussed this response of course we do. Weve made quite clear our position on rothman for some time, which is that we cannot support an operation in raffa as it is currently envisioned, we have made clear the secretary made this clear here in his conversations with Prime Minister netanyahu and other members of the Israeli Government last week that we have not seen humanitarian plan that is credible and that is implementable. And we believe a Military Operation and rafah right now with dramatically increase the suffering of the Palestinian People would lead to an increase in loss of civilian life, would dramatically disrupt the delivery of humanitarian assistance, all of which is coming through im actually and say all but the great majority of which is coming to karam shalon or raffa and is being distributed inside the rough area. If you think about what it would do when you have people moving north to places where internal distribution leinz are not currently set up and youre going to have to try to reestablish those in the middle of conflict. And roffey, we think thatd be very difficult, if not impossible, to do so even absent this latest response, we have made clear that we do not support is relaunching a fullscale Military Operation. And raffa sure you just add it in terms of the standard us position on this, but hasnt been any communication with the israelis about class hours or so, but the response from remal mouse and how this affects this situation, raffa, is there a message . Im just not going to get into are those conversations, as i said, we just just literally in the past our 90 minutes received that response from hamas in the first place. Of course, we will be discussing it with egypt, with khader, with israel, the three countries with whom we have been working throughout this negotiation process. But i dont want to get to the timing of those, but obviously if we have those conversations have not already started, they will be the ongoing in the next several hours amir thats under current circumstances. Do you still think these fires, the civ able based on what you know coming here what what do you mean is a ceasefire achievable. A cease fire is what we are trying to achieve. Yes. But i mean, if there were the weekend, there was there was a quite impasse and right now, hamas was accepted it. But from israel, were hearing that thats not the proposal that weve sent. Thats a soft and version that throws into the whole thing into doubt. And i think im just wondering like, whats your Sentences Fires absolutely achievable. There has been a deal on the table proposal on the table that would achieve an immediate ceasefire. And the release of hostages. Now, as for hamas is response which i think gets due your question again, i dont want to characterize it in any sort of detail until weve had a chance to review it in depth and talk with our partners in the region about it. One thing on humanitarian aid last week when secretary was in israel, there was an increased emphasis on during his trip on the delivery of humanitarian aid. We visited term shalom, which got shut down over the weekend after the hamas attack, but can you give us a sense of what a rafah how that would impact . All of gaza because there are issues with distribution in the north. If we have a rough offensive in the south could there be any meaningful matter in aid delivery in the north so let me just be broadly, all of gaza first and then ill come to the north. So certainly a rough operation in an a raw file operation would make it incredibly difficult to sustain the increases in humanitarian assistance that we have been able to deliver over the past few weeks since the president s call with Prime Minister netanyahu on april for, you have seen an increase in the number of trucks going in through karam shalom, you have seen an increase in the distribution inside of gaza, including inside Southern Gaza all of that would be put in jeopardy by A Rafah Offensive because obviously, just look at what happened in the past 24 hours when you saw hamas Rocket Attacks on karan that led to the death of three idea of soldiers and led to the closure of karan sholom. If you had an ongoing kinetic Military Operation, it doesnt take a genius to figure out the impact that that would have on the delivery of humanitarian assistance, not just through karam sholom, not just threw off the gate. All right. Were Listening Miller at the State Department amid nujaila, that hamas is agreed to a, Ceasefire Proposal. We are awaiting israels response to this. We have learned from israel that they have the offer theyre reviewing it. What we heard from miller, there was there is a significant ofir on the table. He described the ball as having been in hamas is court. He said that israel has made significant compromises and that was the message that has been taken there in the region can we know that the cia director William Burns has been in the region negotiating in earnest as to whats in the response from israel, miller was saying that the us is very much reviewing what hamas is agreed to with israel and other partners in the region. Hes not going to comment on that. Perhaps well get a little more information we are awaiting a White House Press briefing that is scheduled at least to happen here in about 20 minutes, where weve just learned that john kirby, who is the National Security spokesman at the white house, is going to be joining that. So just a sense that there is a Significant Development here, and certainly some hope that perhaps there may be a way to move forward and find agreement to get hostages released. And find an agreement on a cease fire. All of this as the idf has been boys and ordering and evacuation of parts of rafah, were going to continue to follow this. Obviously a lot going on. Well be right back, stay with cnn every piece of evidence tells a story how was really jesse oh, martin, sundays At Night On Cnn not flossing. Well, then add the wo of listerine to your routine. 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First though we do have more on this significant Breaking News out of the middle east, hamas has agreed to a Ceasefire Deal proposed by egypt and qatar our and the Israeli Government says it is now reviewing a is responsible for potentially brianna very, very Significant Developments. Right now, were awaiting reaction directly from the white house. The Press Briefing there is set to be getting just a few minutes. Well, here what the National Security Council Spokesperson has to say on this. The apparent agreement by hamas announced by hamas that theyve accepted this Ceasefire Proposal will share those remarks with you live as soon as they begin over at the white house, sienna as Jeremy Diamond is joining us live from jerusalem right now, jeremy we know israel helped craft this potential deal and a source tells us it was readying an operation and rafah, a Military Operation in rafah. In order in part to Pressure Hamas into accepting a deal. Is there any reason to believe israel will not agree to this proposal that hamas says in his accepted well, thats certainly is a possibility wolffian it as a possibility for a few different reasons. The first of which being that we dont know yet officially whether or not what hamas has agreed to is the same framework that was on the table over the course of the last week, which israel did significantly weigh in on and which as of yesterday, hamas delegation had left cairo without agreeing to. We dont know if any changes have been made to that framework. The second thing to keep in mind here is the fact that the Israeli Government, while it did have significant input into that framework and made some new concessions including allowing the unrestricted return of palestinians to Northern Gaza as part part of this framework, it had not formally agreed to every components of this latest egyptian framework. It was expected that should hamas agree to this framework that it was very likely that the mousavi director, david bar neha, Would Travel To Cairo where the negotiators were meeting this weekend and then pursue negotiations to finalize an Agreement Humans around that framework. And so as of yet, that has not happened and we have yet to actually get an official response from the Israeli Government, but i have learned wolf that in the last hour or so, the Israeli Government has indeed formally received hamas is response from the mediators involved in these negotiations, israeli the israeli Negotiating Team is currently reviewing that response from hamas, but we have yet to get an official comments from the israeli Prime Ministers office. We also know from a diplomatic source familiar with these talks that hamas is agreement to this framework, whether it has changed or not, but hamas is agreement to this framework came after a days long meeting between the cia director bill burns, who was in doha, qatar, and the kadoorie of Prime Minister, the mediators, it seems including khader and egypts brought enormous pressure to bear on hamas to get them to accept this current plan. With that source. Now, telling our colleague Becky Anderson that the ball is now firmly in israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is quartz, so we are awaiting any kind of official reaction from the Israeli Government. But as we understand it, this proposal, this agreement from hamas, is now in the hands of the Israeli Government. We dont yet know how much it has changed. And we also dont know how israels order to evacuate about 100,000 people in eastern rafat, setting the stage for that major Ground Offensive that it has been threatening for months. We dont know how much that played into hamas is decisionmaking today. So i just want to be precise, jeremy, what i hear you saying is that the chief israeli negotiate hey, there and all this and the head of the Israeli Intelligence service, the mossad, david burnett, he has not been an egypt in recent days working on this latest proposal, but hes heading there soon. Is that what youre saying . No word that hes heading there soon, wolf, but my understanding was that if there was a Framework Agreement that he would then travel to meet the other negotiators who over the weekend had indeed been in cairo, but that hamas delegation left cairo last night, i believe today there have been subsequent meetings between the negotiators in doha, qatar including with the cia director of the khader, Prime Minister. And as we understand it, hamas is political head is smile hernia than gave made a phone call to the cutlery Prime Minister, to the head of egyptian intelligence, and he informed them of his agreement to this latest proposal. We dont have any word yet on an israeli Delegation Patient Heading to qatar or to egypt to pursue these negotiations. As we understand it right now, they remain in israel. They are currently studying this latest response from hamas, and were awaiting any kind of official government reaction here, just a quick technical question while i have you, jeremy, we know that israel and egypt have diplomatic relations and israeli officials go to cairo for talks, but israel doesnt have full diplomatic relations with qatar. Are israeli officials, have they been going to doha, qatar for to participate in these negotiations with david burnett, the head of the Israeli Intelligence service, head to qatar, even though there are no formal diplomatic relations between qatar in israel yeah hes he certainly would wolf and despite the fact that they dont have those formal diplomatic relations, there have been open lines of communication between the Israeli Government officials at namely david barney and his cutree counterparts. The cutlery Prime Minister, who also serves as the foreign minister, has been the main interlocutor here. As has the cia director bill burns and the egyptian head of intelligence, carmela boss. Those are all of the key players and certainly they have been traveling to each other over the course of the last several months desperately trying to broker a deal which hundreds of thousands of people in gaza have been waiting for, for seven months now as they have faced this war, we have seen images of them celebrating in the streets tonight. Although again, we do not yet have a final agreement between the parties. And then of course wolf of course, there are the families of the israeli hostages. We could see 20 to 33 israeli hostages released in a first phase of this agreement, if that framework that we were talking about last week still stands. So again, enormous promise here, for innocent people on both sides of this conflict up, but also a lack of certainty at this stage about whether or not this will actually lead to a final agreement . Yeah, very Significant Developments indeed, israel, of course, would release Palestinian Prisoners being held in israel as part of this deal. If in fact it happens, jeremy standby, well go back, get back to you. I want to go to the white house right now. Mj lee is standing by momentarily. Were told that john kirby, the National Security council, is press spokesperson, is going to be briefing reporters. There is that still going on . Thats right, wolf. And actually weve heard from the State Department that the us received hamas is response within the last hour or so. So whats happening now is that us officials are going through the details of this framework and the response from hamath before actually responding in any kind of detail. But youre right that the White House Press briefing is also set to begin in the next few minutes or so, and that is when we expect to get the first and most fulsome white house reaction to this potentially significant news us officials, of course, have been pushing really hard for a number of months now for all of the parties to get to some sort of agreement on a temporary ceasefire and a hostages released deal. We saw over the weekend, cia director bill burns was in the region and he actually ended up staying in doha longer than initially was expected to try to push on this deal. And as jeremy mentioned, according to a diplomatic source telling are Becky Anderson so in both bill burns and the qatari Prime Minister played significant roles along with other mediators and really putting the pressure on hamas to accept this framework. But i do think until we have gotten that official response from the israelis, noting really a sense of caution here is really important. Just given that in the month of reporting on these ongoing negotiations, we have had other moments like this of real optimism, where we appear to be on the brink of a potential deal. And then for whatever reason that deal has fallen apart. And in fact, you know, coming out of this weekend, it did appear that we were actually quite our from anything materializing out of the ongoing talks that we saw over the weekend. I just think all of that gives you a sense of how up and down these ongoing negotiations have been. I should also remind our viewers that of course President Biden and Prime Minister netanyahu spoke earlier today. And of course, these ongoing talks was one of the topic that the two liters discuss, as has been the case for all of their recent phone calls. So again, well see what the white houses official responses to this news that hamas has accepted this latest framework and whether they believed that the israelis would accept this deal as well, wolf i was there any official white house readout on the Phone Conversation between President Biden and Prime Minister. Anytime you we have gotten a readout from that conversation. And as i said, this ongoing negotiation to try to get to a temporary ceasefire in hostages deal. That was one of the issues that was discussed. It also said that the president made clear his views on a rafah operation. That of course is a reference to how much us officials have cautioned. Theyre israeli counterparts in recent weeks that it would be simply unacceptable to this white house and this administration for the israelis to go ahead with a major incursion when they do do not think that the many civilians that are in Southern Gaza can be properly protected. They also discussed a number of other topics, including the issue of humanitarian aid. So a number of important topics were discussed, but we know again that this framework, this agreement that appears that hamas appears to have agreed to. This was one of the overarching topics at the two litres did discuss earlier today, wolf, very interesting mj lees our senior White House Correspondent. Youre getting ready to go to that briefing, will monitor it. Of course, here what john kirby has to say from the National Security council, mj. Thank you very, very much. Want to go back to briana in new york, riana and woolf obviously to mj is point the backdrop for all of this is what were seeing happen in rafah. The idea, the idf issuing an Evacuation Order for Eastern Raffa, what has been a long delayed offensive there. And it is raised questions about whether israel is prepared to go ahead with that. Certainly hamas has an interest in at least trying to delay that if not, stopped that. And that is very much the possibility weve seen that disgust asked about at the state Department Briefing, at least c as well at the White House Briefing, lets bring in cnn chief National Security correspondent alex marquardt. Alex, what are you hearing Will Briana Hamas also has an interest in making it look like israel is rejecting a deal for the past few weeks. What weve heard over and over again from us officials is that the ball isnt hamas cord. It is on them to accept what its been called an extraordinarily generous offer that israel was on board with. And so we hope to get a lot more details from john kirby at the white house and just a few moments, we didnt really learn much of anything from matt miller at the State Department. The State Department spokesman, except that they had gotten this response and that they were reviewing it. And the big question for me, briana and ive been covering this for months now. The ins and outs of what this deal could look like is what does it look like in the later phases of an agreement . So the questions to john kirby should essentially be, did hamas is hamas still insisting . That israel discuss an end to this war and the withdrawal of the idf from the gaza strip. The first phase of this agreement is generally pretty well laid out and it appears that both israel and hamas of all but agreed to what that first phase would look like and that would be some 33 israeli hostages who would be released in exchange for hundreds of Palate Justinian prisoners and goblins and the southern part of the gaza strip would get to go back home to the north in an unrestricted way. So thats appears to be rather settled and thats why the us has said that this was a generous offer because israel has agreed to fewer hostages and theyve agreed to allow those Palestinians To Go Home but briana, where it gets really complicated and where the major Sticking Point has been for a long, long time is in the second and third phases because hamas is insisting that israel Start Talking about ending this war and pulling back their troops. And israel has rejected that. We heard yesterday from israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who mentioned just this and said the state of israel cannot accept this. So back to jeremys point, it really remains to be seen what hamas has agreed to tonight. And is this a ploy by them to be able to say, well, look israel is rejecting this deal. This is on them. But we really just dont have a sense of exactly what it is hamas has agreed to. This is what were asking all of our sources right now, brianna yeah if israel has proposed abc and hamas is accepting a yz than we can see there obviously are quite quite a big area that does not overlap here. And alex were a weighting that that is what us officials officials in the region are going through, alex. Thank you so much for that great reporting. We are awaiting the White House Press briefing. Were going to bring that to you as soon as it begins and we will continue to cover this Breaking News as well. The court is about to resume. Here in new york, where former president final trump is standing trial. We have reporters in the courtroom following every updates stay with us Trump Hush Money, trial, gavel to gavel coverage. The way only cnn can bring it to you, legal insight, Expert Analysis and realtime updates. 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They work great together. Feeling from a backed up god now relax works naturally with the water in your body to help you go for your gut and your mood will follow for eight grams of fiber try mirror fiber guns nice im zachary cohn and washington. And this is cnn welcome back to our Special Coverage. Will of course they are on top of the Breaking News coming out of the middle east, hamas, accepting a Ceasefire Proposal, were expecting to hear directly from the white house at any moment youre looking at the White House Briefing room right there, john kirby, National Security councils oppress spokesperson, is going to be briefing reporters. Well have live Coverage Standby for that. But at the meantime, i want to turn back to the legal drama dramatically. Theyll drama unfolding once you get in new york city, its week four of Donald Trumps historic hush money criminal trial. Lets discuss with my pamelas here and we just learned eleia. Theres a new witness. Theyve wrapped up the testimony from jeffrey mecole, the Trump Organization controller, and now theyve Just Announced a new witness. So this makes perfect sense because this is a natural continuation of this mornings testimony, which came from Geoffrey Mcglone, who essentially was the number two accountant, more or less in the Trump Organization under allen weisberg. Now this is essentially the number three person, ms tarasoff its important to Deborah Tarasoff, right . Its important to keep in mind throughout the Trump Organization was a small operation. They have a lot of employees out of their golf clubs and hotels. But in terms of who ran the corporate side of it, its really just a dozen or so people. Now, there was an important moment that Geoffrey Mcglone testifying about this morning. He sent an email at one point to the witness whos taking the stand ms tarasoff, where he wrote to her quote please pay from the trust post to legal expenses. Ill say that again post to legal expenses. And thats really the heart of the alleged crime here that this was actually reimbursement for the Stormy Daniels hush money but donald trump, they are you artificially said were going to call this legal expenses. I think the testimony this morning was effective in providing a building block. Heres how the accounting works. Whats still missing though, is that direct link . To donald j. Trump where were just getting word in that. One of the district attorneys district attorney, christopher conroy. Its just said while they were generated by capital one they were produced by the Trump Organization from their records. What does that say to you . Well, i think and this is just to pick up on the point that we had made. Lets look at not just this mornings testimony, but the testimony we saw over the last week what prosecutors appear to have done is lay out this theory with respect to the 2016 election and the noting that the Trump Organization and individuals and sayyed were aware of the hysteria about 20 16. And how how donald trump might have behave in response to what todays testimony has sent up. Number one, that money was moved. Number two, that these were not legal expenses. And number three, and i think what i think they hope to get to is that some of these things were direct did by the former president. And so this is important testimony. I think it makes across as boring in the sense that its going to deal with financial records and how money was moved. But this is critical for establishing what they need to establish, which is that these payments were falsified. Well, this is what we mean by this being a Paperwork Case and the these are the people that can actually testify to how that paperwork was conducted and who was directing that paperwork to be conducted as it was. And the Critical Point that i hear here from our legal experts, what was that . Nobody has yet directly connected the defendant in this case. The former president of the United States, to these actions and that is going to be a big question that hangs over this jury as the prosecution moves forward with its case, she was just a vehicle she was asked in February Of 2017 to get these checks and send the checks terrorism . Yes. Deb terrazzo to send them to Michael Cohen as a reimbursement for Legal Services so shes just the vehicle for doing it. I think what we havent seen really is solid proof that donald trump was the architect of all of this. And so what we see the Defense Lawyers talking about is how it was chaos in 2017, once donald trump got to the white house you know, it became chaotic at the trump org. So the question is, was it chaos . Or was there really a conspiracy that was led by even then president the United States, donald trump. You do have his canceled checks you do know that this came from his personal account. Most of these reimbursements to michael to Michael Cohen. So the question is, is that enough . Well, or does there need to be for some of this depends on all of this depends on Michael Cohens testimony. And it remains to be seen what he will say now, at least in the testimony this morning, there was some insinuation is made such that one was there was some other money. He which is Michael Cohen, was owed. Right. And they are it is clear that there are at least attempting to establish that everyone on all sides knew what they intended to do with the money and what it was. But the boards that are missing are donald trump said so now again, you dont need the Donald Trumps explicit statement that he is engaging in a particular act insinuation is enough if theres enough of it and what remains to be seen as what the rest of the testimony, particularly from Michael Cohen says to glory as play as we see the jury is being brought in. Now, the dispute that was happening moments ago was over those canceled checks. Theres a little bit of a technical dispute about are they authentic or not . Theyre going to come in the jurys, youre going to see them. The short answer i think about those checks, some of which were signed by donald trump, not others. The ones that came out of me in the oval office. This thats very important evidence for the prosecution. Its not game over, right . There could be many reasons, and i think what the defense has been building is a defense here that Michael Cohen just saw well, the opportunity to enrich himself and he set up this structure and all donald trump knew was, hey, you owe money to your lawyer fine. I who do i sign the check to so theyre trying to build a sort of a wall between his knowledge of the accounting structures that we heard about this morning and sort of who was actually executing. Hes trying to say that was happening way down in the weeds his, way up here and just to add, we know from testimony in this trial and from covering donald trump heres you just dont money to your lawyer fine is not usually the response that just gets paid hes in the weeds on this stuff. He wants to understand how much is being paid for what purpose does this bill relate to me . We know lots of lawyers in his order but who are still waiting to get paid for work that they believe theyre owed money for so thats also a piece of this story that the Prosecution Team is trying to incorporate that weve learned about trump over the years, not just recently as it when it comes to money, he wants to be involved in every nickel and dime yeah. I mean, that argument goes both ways. Thats one argument. The way david frehse, he wouldnt would never part with a dime that he didnt know exactly what its for. I think the counterpoint the defense is going to make is why would he knowingly reimburse Michael Cohen who had laid out 130,000. Why would he knowingly reimburse Michael Cohen for 420,000 and essentially theyre going to argue that he was duped by his own internal apparatus, by his own leuser. Well, that weissberg laid out a plan and said okay Stormy Daniels was 130,000. Were gonna double that because of tax reasons. Were going to put a bonus in there for michael cone, which he believes he is owed, and then some other some other stuff was thrown in. Its not like donald trump to understand that he owes someone 130,000 and then pay them 420,000. That is a bit out of character. But again, what we are imposing is what we know of donald trump, the individual, which makes total common sense to everyone here and probably many people. But that wasnt jury, but not to a jury. And some of thats not going to be relevant when and when i say relevant, i dont mean common sense relevant relevance in the eyes of the law where it seeks to prove or disprove the jury is now back in the courtroom. The prosecutor, christopher conroy, has called the Deborah Tarasoff, a former accountant from the Trump Organization and testified, were monitoring all of that. Everybody standby much more of our Special Coverage of the donald Trump Hush Money case. Thats coming up by just ahead. Were also waiting to hear directly from the white house. Look, you live pictures from the White House Briefing room expected to hear from the National Security Council Press spokesperson, john kirby is getting ready to brief this let me jump here. Shes walking in. I think shes going to probably introduce john kirby to brief the reporters on this socalled hamas Ceasefire Deal. Well, well monitor this. Lets listen in to careen job here right now. Kirby, who will share more updates in the region everybody as green noted, there has been a response from hamas to the hostage deal were currently reviewing that response. And were discussing it with our partners in the region. Director burns, as you know, is there and hes working this in real time on ground. I wont be able to comment any further on this until we know where things stand. I hope you can understand that i know everybody is curious about whats in this response with these really section into two it is, im just not going to get ahead of the process. We want to get these hostages out. We want to get a ceasefire in place for six weeks. We want to increase monetary assistance and the last thing that i wanted i do is say anything at this podium, its going to put that process at risk goddess, as we said before, we still believed that reaching an agreement is the absolute best outcome, not only for that the hostages, but for the Palestinian People. And were not going to stop working to that outcome. Now, as you know, the president talked with Prime Minister di and yahoo this morning, call lasted about 30 minutes and was constructed. The president reaffirmed his message on yamaha shoah holocaust Remembrance De the two litres discussed the shared commitment of israel, United States. Remember the 6 million jews who were systematically targeted and slaughtered Knowledge One of the darkest chapters in human history. And to forcefully act against antisemitism all forms of hate fueled violence. Of course, the two leaders spoke about but our efforts to secure the hostages deal, including through these ongoing talks today, during the call at the president s urging, Prime Minister netanyahu agreed to ensure that the Karan Crossing is back open for humanitarian assistance for those in need i also want to take a moment to address the latest reports. Now, out of rafah, which was also a topic discussion on the call. Ill reiterate again that we cannot and we will not speak for idf operations. But weve made clear our views whos about operations in raffa that could potentially put more than 1 million innocent people at greater risk during this call with Prime Minister netanyahu, the president , again made this clear he also made clear but we continue to believe that the hostage deal is the best way to avoid that sort of an outcome while securing the release of those hostages. And as i said, those conversations continue. I just one more thing. President biden hosted his majesty king abdullah, the second of jordan for lunch at the white house that probably wrapped up here just recently. They discussed the Strong Partnership between the United States and jordan. They also spoke about the situation in gaza. Of course, including efforts to secure the hostage deal. And to get more monetary and assistance into the civilians of gaza. And were going to have a more detailed readout of that conversation here very, very soon. Just dont have it right now, but youll be seeing it shortly. Get to me you can tell which proposal that hamas, except im not going to get into that. Steve is the issue over how long a cease fire was. Again, youre asking me for the parameters around the response and the deal itself. And im just not going to do that. Lastly, israel has cold on people refer to vacua is, does that pretty say to fullscale assault. What do we see . As i said in my opening statement, im not going to speak for idf operations or their military intentions and plans. They should be the ones to answer those kinds of questions. What i can only reiterate is that weve been consistent and the president was consistent. Again, this morning that we dont support Ground Operations and raffa that would put the majority or even any celina there at any greater risk. We want to see their safety and security allowed for foreign factored in noting here caveats at the top or you email to say whether hamas was agreeing to something that had been discussed over the last several days again, without getting into the details of it. And Director Burns is still talking to partners about this there have been ongoing negotiations and talks here for weeks and the director traveled recently to see if we cant bring this thing home and again, without speaking about the details of the response by hamas, i think its safe to conclude that that response came as a result or at the end of these continued discussions that Director Burns was part of, why do you think you have a better sense of what is happening . When will you get read out from Director Birth later today . Early the president has been briefed on on the response. Hes aware of where the situation where the process is what youre asking me is like when are we going to get like a final what did the final we have table slap here. There is a theres a process that has that has been worked in the past. And will we work this time you get a response by hamas. Were going to have to all your weight that were going to see whats in it certainly, the israelis get it must have a chance to look at this and to evaluate it. And Director Burns, as as we speak literally as you want are talking, are having these conversations with partners in the region it would be great. Im sure wed all like to have an answer as soon as possible, but i just want to get her that process up on a bleed out. When do you expect . Collect shalom quasi to reopened or is it already building . It should be opened very resume Prime Minister nine, you committed to opening on the call this morning, so at 2 30, is it open . I dont know. But he assured the president that it would be reopened. It had been closed for several days. And one more abyssinian, the kd executive director of the world r amp said over the weekend i got that isnt a quote for is that the assessment of the us government, you and is not declared a famine in gaza writ large, but i dont want to understate the degree of need here and the the dire situation that so many people in guys are in, particularly with respect to food and water. So it is not a great situation clearly, and thats why again, were working so hard to get if this deal in place so we can keep that humanitarian assistance up at a higher level i understand you want to get into the specifics here, but is it your understanding that this is a masss final ofir theyre still room to negotiate here. I think its going to depend on our evaluation and the israelis evaluation of the response and where we go from here. And fdi budget these relays are already morning people two evacuating gaza if they do go through with this operation, is the us willing to consider putting limits or conditions on it . Israel i wont get ahead of where we are right . Now marrying the process here and im certainly not going to speak to hypothetical operations that havent happened yet. I think we just have to see what transpires. The president was very direct and consistently. So this morning that we dont want to see major Ground Operations in raffa, put these people at greater risk, but a month ago, the administration did make clear that the us would change its approach try israel didnt take significant steps to address the humanitarian crisis. Thats just that still hold, is it possible to be was could change course it will manage carrion process, isnt of course, we always know, we always have the right to adjust our policies as appropriate, and that has not changed . No. Every really an operation in raffa would jeopardize steps to address the military. All i can say is weve been very redirect and very consistent and our views of concerns about operations and offer does the us currently have any sense of whether israel is inclined . And or not inclined this dino i wont speak for these rails won the president and the Prime Minister spoke earlier today, was this specific framework . Disgust and to the president encouraged for pressure on the Prime Minister to accept this right . Youre talking about the what what hamas says a responded to. So just just so you have the tiktok here when they were talking this morning we did not have news that hamas had responded. So that news broke after the call that said, as i mentioned in my opening statement, of course, they talked about the hostage one of getting it secure. So you were saying when the two liters folk, hamas had not yet, it would be yeah, would not have specifically after Prime Minister sure. To correct potentially wrong for you to conclude that the call this morning was about having the israelis except the hamas response to hamas response hadnt happened yet. Broadly encouraged the Prime Minister to get yes. To some sort of deal he, as he has consistently, would premised are urged that we get this deal secured, but it wasnt it wasnt a pressure call, wasnt about twisting his arm towards a certain set of parameters Director Burns is in the region having these conversations with the israelis, the khader egyptians, as, again, as we speak, and thats the forum for working out the parameters of it. But the president clearly talked to the apprentice or about the importance of getting a deal done . Yeah. What is the president s position on a limited operation is rafah i think i dont think i can answer any differently than i did with mary. Weve been very clear that we dont support a major Ground Operation or rafah operations in general that put at greater risk. The more than 1 Million People that are sheltering there the question right now is a hypothetical. I mean, were aware they drop leaflets, were aware that there there wanted people to evacuate. I let them speak to their operations and to their intense intentions. Nothing has changed about where we are with respect to operations and raffa that could put those people at greater risk, right . You know that they are asking people in the area to the vacua in the pot possibility of a limited prama operations on the table. So im asking, does the president believe that israel could execute a limited operation and to raffa while adequately protecting the lives of civilians. There president doesnt want the operations and raffa that put at greater risk the more than 1 Million People that are seeking referee refugee, theyre support, a limited operation if i think ive answered the question francesca picking up on the timeline. So prior to the law saying that they accepted this proposal, what as you understood them to be where the stick in place for either hamas or theres really is in the deal that happened on the table. Im not going to get into that. Okay. Did it involves raffa anyway im not going to talk about the parameters of the proposal that was worked before this hamas response. And im certainly not going to talk about the Response Rate now i mean, i do understand the curiosity and you guys are all asking exactly the right questions. All very fair but i really do hope you understand that the last thing i would ever want to do from this podium as say, something that could put this very sensitive process at greater risk. We are at a critical stage right now. We got a response from hamas. Now, Director Burns is working through that, trying to assess it, working with the israelis i mean, my goodness, folks, i dont know that it gets any more sensitive than right now. And the worst thing that we can do is start speculating about whats in it. And when were thinking around what was your understanding why this real were only evacuating part of raffa at this time. Youd have to talk to the israelis thanks, thanks. Out. Youve previously said several times that the ball is in the core of hamas. Previous stages of negotiations, would it be fair to say now that the ball is in israels chord, its going to depend on what the response actually says and the commerce sessions that we have with the israelis about what where we go from here he said the us is reviewing the response and discussing with various partners in the region, the hamas response, he wouldnt go into more details than that. He did say that President Biden had what he called a construct 30 minute Phone Conversation earlier in the day with the israeli Prime Minister benjamin, the time the hour that was before he said that was before the hamas response saying theyve accepted a Ceasefire Deal. He also made it clear that the us continues to oppose any any Israeli Ground operation, military Ground Operation in rafah, given the fact there are a hundreds of thousands of people there who could be endangered by that. The president opposes a Ground Operation and raffa he said, and finally, he said that israel has reopened whats called the karen shalom opening, allowing food as humanitarian supplies to come back into gaza, which he says is its very, very significant. And he added these words at the very end. He said, we are at a critical stage right now. We are at a critical stage right now. And he didnt want to say anything that potentially could undermine the possibility of a Ceasefire Deal that would allow israeli hostages to go home, would allow Palestinian Prisoners to be, freed by israel and would allow greater humanitarian opportunities for the people in gaza right now. So you didnt want to get it to a whole lot of details, but that was john kirby, the spokesperson for the National Security council will continue to monitor this briefing, share it with you. Were going to be much more on all of the Breaking News, much more on the special average of the trump Hush Money Trial in new york right after a quick break missing out on the things you love because of asthma get back to better breathing thank with for sandra, an addon treatment for Eosinophilic Asthma that is taken once every eight weeks to sandra is not presented. Breathing problems or other us insular conditions, allergic reactions may occur dont stop your asthma treatments without talking with your doctor, tell your doctor if your asna headache and sore throat may occur. 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Testimony resume just a short time ago, deborah terrorists off the accounts payable supervisor in the Trump Organizations Accounting Department is now on the stan and joining us now is former Trump White House Communications Director mike dub key. He is a Founding Partner of the black rock group and mica i just want to let our viewers know that terrorists off right now going through the process of how trump would sign checks, she obviously knows the nittygritty of that, but today marks the beginning. Think of this fourth week of trumps Hush Money Trials so far i wonder if you think the trials helping or hurting him politically. Well i think its helping him politically in the sense that the world, at least the political world in the United States is focused on donald trump every day they dont need the campaign does not need to manufacturer rallies or events in order to get him on television in front of the press on the one hand, thats great. On the other hand, its also a negative and that it is a turning the candidate into a one issue pony, rather than being able to talk about immigration or taxes or unemployment, or inflation, or attack the Biden Administration for any number of things. We are focused on this trial. And so probably at the end of the de it may be a wash but he definitely is getting the majority of attention court opened today with the judge wander shine finding trump and content im for the 10th time for violations of the gag order. Thats in place for sean said that while incarceration is truly the last resort, he said going forward, this court will have to consider a jail sanction. How do you think Trump Supporters would react if there was jail time for him and do you think that he would be trump at all deterred by this threat . I doubt that the president , President Trump would be deterred by the thread. I mean, hit the reason he is i dont think this is a cat and mouse game with the judge for President Trump. I think he feels aggrieved and i believe him when he says that he feels like he has to stand his ground and fight back. That said, i dont think trumps supporters would take it in any positive fashion to have the president incarcerated for any period of time. And i also find it very that would be a very difficult decision for the judge. And even if we werent talking about donald trump, but were just talking about any x president in a high profile trial to incarcerate somebody for things that they say on trumps social twitter, whatever it may be that seems like a pretty far step id be very surprised if the judge did that i wonder i remember speaking to someone in particular close to trump, who had said during the impeachment process that they had been glad not to take a role in the first trunk term and that they actually thought there might be Legal Proceedings and they sort of foresaw that that could be a considerable i guess investment of time and fence and i wonder if you think this parade of former trump employees going to the witness stand. We saw hope hicks, obviously, a late last week do you think that deters folks from working for the former president in a hypothetical second term. I think anytime somebody can considers Government Service unfortunately, in this day and age they have to consider going through the all of the ethics scrutiny that is part and parcel the forms that one needs to fill out all of this is it is a mindnumbing exercise to decide that you want to serve your country. And thats just on a good day. To your point of serving with President Trump yes, you have to take that into consideration whether or not youre going to have to have an outside counsel at some point in your during your service or post Service Timeframe . It is a deterrent, but there are so many other deterrence that are also for the good, for the good people that step up both in the republican and the democratic administrations. There is a lot that goes into making a decision to serve yeah. Theres certainly is even as you said, on the best of days, mike, great to have you, mike. We thank you. All right. Thank you. Were back now with a fill mattingly to talk a little bit about what were watching here. Deborah terrace off whos in accounts payable . There thats really the point that were at. Were talking about checks being cut it throughout like just the daily todo of the Trump Organization . But what is it that she can testify to that her boss mccartney earlier today could not testify before, and i can tell and your tone. You may have been in this place before you think the accounts payable person is not necessary . Certainly the person that i want to be paying attention to if im trying to follow what i was saying, fill it pick that. Youre putting down there, briana. Heres why it matters in this. Tracks get closer to what we heard earlier in the testimony this morning from other Trump Organization employee, former demonstrators officer, current employee. And what she was doing was quite literally receiving receiving approved invoice entering it into the Trump Organization system, then cutting the check and having it signed in describing this process is important because what was the huge gap that we heard . This morning ceremony . There was no explicit link to former President Trump. There was no interaction that happened. Theres no documentation that happened where anybody could prove that donald trump knew exactly what was going on. It was very clear, i think in the testimony this morning, what was going on as they laid out the foundational elements, the kind of brick by brick of how the check was written, why . It was written to Michael Cohen. And very clearly that it was not illegal retainer what fifth terrace off is making clear is donald trump had his hands and everything testifying just short while ago as two 11 15. Any invoice over 10,000 had to be approved by donald trump when she approved and cut the chat or got the approved invoice and cupp check, she would hand it to run a graph. Obviously, the longtime very close its assistance at all jump who would take it into Trumps Office and trump would sign it. Lets all of the checks that were coming out from his account, theres a stamps, so just them my hand, you want to know how she knew that he was signed . Thank them by hand because they were done in a black sharpie, which anybody who covered the white house or whos dealt with foul trouble, or whos gotten a note from donald trump on an article theyve written or anything of the kind of the course, the less over years knows he uses black sharpie. In fact, even trumps lawyers laughed at the idea, are at the testimony that he uses blackstuff. You see it right there. Everybody is pretty familiar with the signature at this point in time. But making very clear that he was deeply involved, making very clear that he was signing these checks that he had to approve anything over 10,000 and also making very clear that he didnt just sign off on everything like a rubber stamp or or figurative rubber stamp. There were times where he would get checks, you would get invoices and he would write void on the checks and send them back even if lysol burger its obviously very welldocumented, have very closely. Monitored and cared about his finances, what he was spending, what the invoice is actually said, shes not making that point once again, on these so the issues is that the link because one of the issues that weve seen is where is the link between the arrangement . And donald trump. And is it only going to be Michael Cohen providing that link . Is this a link or no is there an explicit link . I dont think theres any question with the answer is no. When it comes to that, she doesnt have shes never seen donald trump on these specific documents that were problematic. The actual basis of the allegations have been brought up the case that has been brought here. She did not see him sign and the check. She did not have any access to the communication. She said she saw the form of present quite often, but didnt have direct business dealings with him. Again, what youre seeing, i think eliot and eleia do really good job laying this out earlier they are building the case around donald trump to this point, whether or not the jury, you thinks that thats enough, you can make a case off what theyre laying right now. If 12 people agree that it they think its very clear that must have because he how we operated in sayyed the Trump Organization is the way he couldnt have known what was actually happening here but the reality remains the same as it has been for week. We are driving to a point where it seems like the only person with direct knowledge firsthand knowledge which of Donald Trumps explicit knowledge of what happened in explicit direction microphone what is the consensus right now of how the prosecution is . Telling a story that is really checking off all the boxes and there are several of what they have to convince the jiri of in order to find donald trump guilty i think its mixed in the sense of the i would say mixed because the defense team has certainly had good days and im think theres been any question about that. There have been several crossexamination where i think the defense got what they needed in terms of raising doubt about Donald Trumps direct involvement, raising doubt about whether or not he knew or whether or not he signed off on or, hey, even if you signed off on all this it might not be illegal in the first place given how charges are actually structured here what i think is most interesting coming into this week, having covered every week of this up to this point, is how youre certainly get a sense of how theyre telling the story so much of last week, obviously almost all of last week was about why the election, madam, why 2016, why the Campaign Wine november mattered, and why what happened in the weeks leading up to the election were so critical before that, you had the friends of donald trump over and over a course of decades and how they drove the structure of this kind of cd the underbelly of how hush money payments work now, youre getting a very in the weeds of how the Trump Organization actually operated. Theyre building the very specific blocks youre to drive towards Michael Cohen and make very clear that despite everybody agreeing that Michael Cohen probably not the most reliable witness and certainly not the most liked witness. Thats right. The spanish so much weve heard that over and over. Hes credible or hes hes got ive maybe a credibility problem, not wellliked but well have to see if this jury finds some credible, at least in this matter, phil. Thank you so much for taking us through all of that. And when we we come back more vr Special Coverage of this trial under other Breaking News today, which is that hamas is agreed to a Ceasefire Proposal. Were still waiting to see if israel is going to sign off until this, were also waiting to see quite frankly what hamas is agreed to. If this resembles what israel had had a hand in crafting last week or if israel is going to push forward with with an offensive and raffa, we have that ahead were here to get your side of the store. 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And incursion into parts of rafah, they havent Evacuation Order in Eastern Raffa in the meantime, here in new york, were following the later it is on former President Trumps Hush Money Trial. This is an accounting case at its core and today, jurors are hearing from two people who handled the accounts at the trump World Organization right now, deborah terrace off is on the stand and other long time trump employee, wolf were following all these dramatic developments. Briana, early during the day, trumps former controller discussed the monthly checks. Michael cohen, the president , then president former lawyer and fixer, got from trumps personal account after trump became president. The prosecution says those checks were part of a falsified paper trail to cover up reimbursements for this Stormy Daniels hush money deal. I want to go to cns elie honig. Over the magic well, for us, eleia, take us through what deb terrorists, odd other accountant who worked at trump and the Trump Organization is talking about now and how it ties back into the testimony from the former Trump Organization executive jeffrey macaque honey, who also testified earlier today. Yeah. Well, this case at its core is really about accounting. And today the jury is hearing from the key accountants within the Trump Organization. First, lets understand who these folks are. Now. Allen isobars was the chief Financial Officer of the trump arike. Hes in prison right now. He will not be testifying, but this morning, the jury heard from next person in line, Jeffrey Mccartney, who is the comptroller, and now theyre hearing from Deborah Tarasoff, who worked underneath and with Geoffrey Mcglone. So theyre hearing from the inside of the accounting apparatus. Now its important to understand why this matters in the case. The way that the payments to Stormy Daniels were made first Michael Cohen paid Stormy Daniels 130,000, essentially of his own money. Originally, he drew down on his mortgage, paid her, then later and this is where the accountants come in. Donald trumps organizations reimbursed Michael Cohen for way more than that, 420,000. And this is really important to the case its the prosecution is making theyre arguing that it was set up this way intentionally to misleadingly make it look like attorneys fees. So lets break down. Were now learning how we arrived, how prosecutors arrived at this 420,000 prosecutors have argued that 130,000 of it was to reimburse Michael Cohen for the payment to stormy day handles. There was another 50,000 to reimburse Michael Cohen for an outside contractor unrelated to this case prosecutors also alleged that 180,000 extra was paid to Michael Cohen to cover his Tax Liability for this one at and then finally, Michael Cohen was given a 60,000 bonus. Thats how they allege this. As 420,000 payment was arrived at. Now, there was a really important moment this morning where won the mornings witness emailed the current witness in that email, mr. Mecole email deb terrace off and he tells her, quote please pay from the trust post to legal post. Illegal is really important because again, the core prosecution theme here is these were actually reimbursements for hush money, but the trump or in people tried to make it look like legal fees. And one of the ways that the reimbursements happen, of course, weve seen these checks, but there were a series of checks and the prosecution went through them this morning with mcglone issued from trump in the organization to Michael Cohen, including some of those checks, not all of them, but some of them signed by donald trump. You can see is distinctive handwriting there. Jeffrey mcglone actually identify that as Donald Trumps handwriting. I think we all probably recognize it on crossexamination. The main point that trumps lawyers made to jeffrey mcglone is that he had limited to no contact with donald trump. He was asked, President Trump did not ask you to do any of the things that the di described to you and mcglone said he did not. In fact, my connie said he did not talk to trump at all in 2016, 17, or 18. So woolf, as always, the key here is linking what was happening in the Accounting Department all the way up the chain to donald trump. Thats what prosecutors are trying to establish here and defense, theres of course, are trying to say donald trump was operating up in the clouds. He wasnt involved in the nuances here and maybe get a little complicated, but its very, very significant in this case, eleia, thank you very much. Lets talk a little bit more about some of the key moments from todays, earlier testimony, joy joining us now, trial consultant Richard Gabriel richard, thanks so much for joining us court was dramatic, right from the start today with judge merchan finding the former president in contempt for violating the gag order. Once again, for a tenth time, he opposed another thousand dollars fine on trump and even threatened to send them to jail. Jail if he violate the violent lets continue. So first of all, whats your reaction to that well, i mean, the its this huge struggle and he, donald trump has consistently says, said that he does not even think he should be cortellessa in any way of saying about anything. And the truth is, you dont tom trump has been pushing the boundaries about whether you can record ignites is the rule of law. He feels somewhat accurately that hes in contempt of the court. So i think its an interesting dynamic here where the defendant, which most defendants obviously come into court, with some of this deference to the authority of the Court Donald Trump doesnt feel that at all so its this struggle and i think it really is going to play out depending upon whether he gets on the stand to testify. The Trump Organization controller, the accountant, geoff mecole. Explain the nuts and bolts of that 420,000 dollars and payments to michael cohn, but he also testified that trump didnt ask him directly directly to arrange those alleged reimbursements. How is the juror jury likely to respond to that well well, this is really the piecebypiece brick by brick, chain by chain kind of unexciting al capone building of a case in which theyre really just linking everything together here. Its kinda like a jigsaw puzzle where theyre just trying to put pieces together to really create a picture for the jiri. I think theres clearly a theme that the prosecution is going for, which is trump is involved. He has knowledge about everything. He has control over everything. And i think the obviously the defense is trying to lay foundations saying, look, this is the during the middle of a campaign, and this is not really what hes what hes focused on at all. And i think one of the key pieces today also was that there was a lot of chaos in the 2017 period when he actually when these recordings are made. And so that he really doesnt aware of this. But the problem here is that trump is very controlling and you have to financial people on this jiri who are also looking very carefully at the financial aspects. Theres theyre very clearly keyed into this. You see jurors taking notes on this. Theyre tracking this evidence very clearly. Good point. Macartney, the Trump Organization accountant controller described the chaotic inner workings of the Trump Organization after the former president took office, in terms of handling the accounting procedures whats your takeaway from that . Well i mean it really has to do with it is the building blocks. I mean, obviously the defense in various points is going to go the connection is not made here. So i mean, these accounting procedures obviously have to have resonance, especially for the financial people and also for the lawyers. Weve got two lawyers on this sorry remember, got to lawyers to financial people to engineers. So very smart, jiri really trying to put this, these pieces together here and trying to kind of go okay, what is the hierarchy . What is the structure of this organization whos aware of what and who is responsible for what. And i think debra tarasoff just said, look down, trump is not going to sign a check that he doesnt approve of any voids chips, checks periodically. So theres a lot thats being built up by the prosecution especially about even though its a lot of chaos is a big organization. There still is a lot of control on top by donald trump very important developments indeed. Richard gabriel, thank you so much for joining us thank you. Im brianna back to you well, some Breaking News just into cnn, were learning that an american soldier was arrested in russia last week on suspicion of theft. That that soldier is now being detained. This is something that weve learned from two us officials. Lets go to cns and torture bertrand and pentagon. Natasha, tell us what youre learning yeah, briana, not much more than that, unfortunately, but we are learning. Is that an american soldier who was stationed in south korea traveled to russia up his own volition where he was arrested on may 2 by russian authorities on suspicion of theft. Now we dont know exactly what the circumstance and says of that arrest. Were all we know at this point is that he is currently being detained in pretrial detention until at least july 1st, according to two us officials now, the us embassy in moscow, they are trying to get consular access to this american soldier. And were told that his family has been made aware of his detention. Furthermore, the White House Well said just moments ago, but theyre also aware of the case, but they referred of course, questions to the department of defense here for any additional information. Now, obviously this is a very, very sensitive moment for Us Russia Relations particularly when it comes to those hostage negotiations. There are several hostages that the us has deemed wrongfully detained americans being held in russia currently, of course, including evan girish go and paul whalen. And so russia now has added, it seems yet another detainee to that list of americans that the United States is going to have to determine whether or not this individual was wrongfully detained and take the appropriate steps from there to try to get him back. But of course, this is not welcome news for anyone here in the whove been trying so hard as is to try to get The Americans who are already in the russian prison system back home. Riana all right. And the tosca will continue to follow that story. Thank you for the latest there. And in the meantime, testimony continuing in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial, here are new youre more of what is coming out that courtroom. When are Special Coverage continues how wed really happy with jesse, you, martin, sundays At Night On Cnn. Nasher moves fast. So we partner with verizon to take our operations to the next level with a custom private five g network, we get more control of production, efficiencies and greater agility. 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Now thats a breath of fresh airway every weekday morning, cnn five things has what you need to get going with. Youre de its the five essential stories of the morning in five minutes or less cnns five things with kate bolduan, streaming weekdays exclusively on macs were following the latest developments out of the trump ban, criminal Hush Money Trial in new york city. Deborah terrace off the accounts payable supervisor in the trp organizations Accounting Department is still on the stand she allegedly helped arrange for Michael Cohen to be reimbursed for Stormy Daniels hush money payments. My panel is back with us and elie honig, let me ask you, whats your reaction to her testimony so far . Well, it seems like its useful to the jury in the sense that its explanatory and a lot of the jury has to understand the accounting mechanisms taryn, if theyre going to get to a conviction. And i think if you take the mornings testimony from mr. Mcglone confined with deborah terrorists. If you think its quite clear how they structure these payments that they intentionally repaid Michael Cohen, three plus times the amount that he laid out. The question two questions are one, why did they overpay him that much in two and two . To what extent can they impute that to donald trump . To what extent was donald trump aware of this specific mechanism . Who came up with it by the way, i think its i think it will emerge that this was Michael Cohens idea to structure it this way. The question though is, did donald trump know about it and bless it . Well what was also interesting about her testimony is that she shows you how the ledger entries were made my connie talked about the invoices she takes you another step and talks about how they used to send via fedex the checks to be signed to the white house where donald trump would sign these checks and they would be then returned. So it really, it really takes it into the, into the white house potentially into the oval office were donald trump with his sharpie was signing these checks, even as he was president of the United States. Although theres nothing that i understand in the case that is char hes not charged with any thing as it relates to his job as president of the United States. The case is purely about what he was doing as a candidate for president of the United States, even though these payments came once, he was in strict Campaign Finance, exactly. Theres no doubt about that. Well, what is so intriguing to me. I just listening to you start this segment loads like were now into the portion of this trial of the accounts payable supervisor. I mean, what we are not in the land of big Corporate America we are in the land of a Family Business a small shop no offense. Mr. President , i dont mean small that you didnt make money here. Im just saying it was an intimate affair. So when you learn like the check was stapled to the top of the invoice and thats how mr. Trump liked it. And then he would sign in the sharpie at that. This is not being processed through some massive accounts Payable Department here, we heard today from the two people basically responsible and the Trump Organization for getting bills pay. And even after he became president , he didnt give up that authority to sign checks, which is kind of remarkable. I mean, we know that eric trump was involved in running the business, but but anything over 10,000 had to have the approval of donald trump and eric trump. And there he was as president of the United States, still involved in running this small enterprise. You know, i mean, yes, they made a lot of money, but it was a small Family Business and he didnt give it up. Im still confused. I still dont understand if a michael cohn gave Stormy Daniels what, 130,000 why was he reimbursed from trump for more than 400 Thousands . Thats an important question in the case. The answer i think that prosecutors would give is this is all part of the scheme they were trying to cover up the one 30 they didnt want a one for what well, michael colored paid stormy one 30, therefore, im going to pay Michael Cohen one 30. Prosecutors would say that would be two obvious too easy to track. And so instead, they added this other 50,000 that Michael Cohen had laid out for something else, legitimate, but something else. They doubled it to cover his taxes. Then they gave them a bonus of 60,000 and just to address a really important point and david rate the reason all this matters is because the prosecutions theory as they were trying to hide this because they knew it violated Campaign Finance laws, because they paint Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet because of the campaign. They didnt want that known and so they put this whole elaborate accounting mechanism on top of it, which, which it probably Michael Cohen invented content because on that audio tape we have donald trump and this was in reference to karen mcdougal, but sort of his inclination was to pay cash just pay cash and get rid of it. And Michael Cohen had this convoluted plan that this is how im going to get reimbursed. And by the way, were going to win include a bonus for man at which i wasnt paid, which i should have been paid. And i guess donald trump agreed to that. We heard dramatic testimony from hope hicks on friday, who worked for many years directly in the Trump Organization for trump himself . And it was pretty powerful, pretty dramatic when we heard from jeffrey mcglone, the controller today, the accountant was a lot less dramatic but it was important why . Well, for a number of reasons. And again, to make the point that foreign prosecutors cant make enough, not all testimonies going to be dramatic and its often the nondramatic testimony is where these quote unquote, document cases are built. Now, its important to establish how payments were made and how they were recorded, and to pick up on a point that david made where you dont have testimony directly linking the former president. Well, but what you do have and this is davids point. Its a Small Business where theyre stapling checks to do invoices and so on. And at a certain point it becomes hard to square that the head at the top of the organization is not aware of what these checks are and what they mean now, a bunch of testimony came out, but number one, he signs it reject that his signatures on it, and that these were coded to be as Deborah Tarasoff and received as legal expenses. Now, theres a little bit of a jump that jurors have to make there, but its not that far of a leap given the kinds of things that we know about this quote, unquote, Small Businesses, we knew it and we havent heard from every witness yet, including a big one in the form of Michael Cohen, who can who at least at the prosecutors get what it sounds like they want from this witness. Well, this is the way this is where you miss Allen Weissberg because i know hes at Rikers Island now and he hes in prison for perjury. But you know, alan wifes a burge was the person who spoke with donald trump about this and who came up with the payment plan after talking to Michael Cohen about it. And that wives the bergen trump had a conversation about it, allegedly. And but were not hearing yslow berg so hes kind hes kind of a missing link here because under donald trump and the way in the way this organization tim was structured was yslow berg. There are there are probably a few different ways to establish that something is in somebodys head. One is to get a letter or a statement from that person saying this is in my head at this point another is to have virtually every employee of his organization saying again and again and again, this person knew everything that came in and came out. Number two, this person knows about what the finances of the organization are. Number three, this person signature is on everything at a certain point. It defies reason for it could defy reason for jurors i do think that this person did not know what was happening as organs. Everybody standby. We have a lot more to report a much more coming up are Special Coverage will continue after a quick break and another story were also following very pretty closely right now, hamas, a taotie. It is agreed to a Ceasefire Deal, but we have an update on this story. Were getting reaction now coming in from israel standby for that. Well be right back. Now. 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News we continue our breaking News Coverage of former President Trumps hush money criminal trial, the prosecution is now questioning Deborah Tarasoff, who works in the Trump Organizations Accounting Department. And lets talk about this now. A cnn chief domestic correspondence fill mattingly as well as cnn legal analysts Karen Friedman egg niccolo, who we should note is of council for affirm that represents Michael Cohen. She has no contact with cohen, does not work on his case. And there are no restrictions on what she can say about this case, but we were just talking in the break here. Karan, that think some of what is happening today kind of crystallises the way prosecutors are really building this case against all from yeah, this is a methodical building at brick hi, brick by brick. And the entire case depends on each witness. Theres not one witness that has testified yet that he can say this was the whole thing. But that remains to be what Michael Cohen is going to provide. But what theyre really trying to do is build every little piece of this so that by the time it gets to Michael Cohen, i think everything will be clear and will be in evidence and will be testified to. But its a little bit frustrating because there is its like you get, you get right up to the line of donald trump but theres no clear yes. I spoke to donald trump and he told me to do this and i was standing there when he signed it and say, yes, i know what this is and so thats the thing we dont have yet good point. I feel like there have been four or five witnesses where, you were following with our great team thats in the room because where you can have cameras in the room which all disagree with where your right up at the line. And i feel like theres been several times youre like, oh, this is going to be nope. Okay. Now, we didnt actually have the direct connection and i think this is the two indices weve had today, Trump Organization insiders. Yes, very weeds. The insiders at that when youre talking about the Accounting Department . Hi and accounts payable. But very specifically were involved in the payments to Michael Cohen in the apparent missed identification of the payments to Michael Cohen has Legal Services and the entire structure of the process from a little bit more of a macro standpoint this morning, ive very micro standpoint with the witnesses currently on the stand and yet there is no direct when divert yourself, walk the checks over to rona graph. She didnt walk them directly into Donald Trumps office. She knows that thats down. Trumps sharpie and how he signs things. But she didnt witness that and she doesnt know necessarily whether or not she gets say that donald trump specifically knew exactly the check that he was signing, even though he was directly involved in everything that his organization was doing, they always stop just shy of it, leaving one individual this is about telling a story and convinced think a jury. There is no way with what all of these witnesses have told them about donald trump did he wouldnt have known this. That he wouldnt have understood the match nations of this arrangement because lets just remind people this isnt just 130,000. There actually in the totality of the different payouts around this 130 Thousand Dollars and hush money. There was allegedly 420,000, hard to believe donald trump wouldnt have known about that, is it hard enough to believe for the jury, i guess . Thats the question. Well, the one thing the prosecution has done a really good job at is proving a crime. Theres clearly a conspiracy to evade taxes, election having to declare how much donations of an outlet for an election. So its clear theyve proven that there is a crime that occurred good here, Michael Cohens guilty of it. Alan yc berg has guilty of it and david pecker is part of this conspiracy, at least those three its not others like dylan howard and a few others getting donald trump into that mix though its looking more and more like it depends on Michael Cohens testimony. But again, were just still have a long way to go in the prosecutions case. They just started this week with the falsification of Business Records, charts purchase last week was much more about the caching kills game and putting that together. So this is the falsification of Business Records week. So we still have a lot of ways this is to hear from. But so far today its very much theyve proven a crime, just havent. We dont have that link yet. We are looking for that karan and phil. Thank you so much to both of you. And we are hearing new testimony in former president froms Hush Money Trial here in new york, or Special Coverage will continue after a quick break. 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You just slip in and theyre on try sketches, slip ends were monitoring significant Breaking News out of the middle east right now, the israeli Prime Ministers office saying that its Military Operation in a rafah will continue despite hamas saying it is agreed to a Ceasefire Proposal, just hours ago, people are in rafah. Were celebrating news of a potential deal while on television demonstrators including families of israeli hostages still being held by hamas gaza have taken to the streets to urge Prime Minister new tinea to accept that deal. Seen as Jeremy Diamond has joining us live from jerusalem right now, jeremy israel certainly helped craft this deal. Theyve said the goal of the rock operation to exert pressure on a mosque. Thats that was the goal of the rough operation. The us helped convince a mass to agree to this deal. But this seems to be a major setback right now for anyone hoping for some of peaceful ceasefire in gaza . Well, well, if theres no question that the last few hours have been an emotional roller coaster, not only for those whove been closely following this, but of course, four the hundreds of thousands of people in gaza who have been suffering seven months of war and are hoping for a reprieve for the families of the hostages who wants to hug their loved ones and while, as you said, while israel did have significant input into that egyptian framework, it had not agreed to it all together and its also not clear at this stage whether this hamas response, what they have agreed to, if that is the same framework that was initially submitted to them and now the Prime Ministers office is saying that the Military Operation in rafat will continue as these negotiations also play out, were already getting word from these really military that they have begun to carry out a series of what they are describing as precision strikes on hamas targets in Eastern Raffa that very same area where just ours go less than 24 hours ago, about 100,000 civilians were told to begin to evacuate in addition to continuing the operation in raffa, israeli Prime Ministers office is now saying this about the hamas proposal, saying that it is quote, far from israels necessary requirements they also say wolf that they will send a quote working level delegation to meet with the mediators. Not clear if thats gonna be in doha, qatar, or in cairo, egypt but clearly on the one hand, the Israeli Government responding to this, what they are characterizing, not as hamas agreeing to the framework, but rather as a hamas proposal theyre characterizing that in negative terms, but they are saying that they are going to continue to negotiate, sending this working level delegation to pursue talks further. So it doesnt appear wolf that a deal is imminence that it could come in a matter of hours, but rather that this will be days more of negotiations and whether it heads in a positive direction or not, still remains to be seen im correct me if im wrong, where the Hostage Families were demonstrating in television for a little while ago, were they in favor of israel accepting this hamas accepted deal . Absolutely. Those protesters who came out tonight in numbers are urging the Israeli Government to accept the proposal on the table these are the folks of course, who have been demonstrating for weeks, if not months at this point in front of the kerrey, which is the Israeli Military headquarters in tel aviv, where the israeli work has been meeting urging them to do more to secure the release of their loved one. Ones. And now that they see that hamas has agreed to some kind of framework for a deal they want israel to do the same all right, well see whats going to happen. Jeremy diamond in jerusalem for us, jeremy, thank you very much. Lets discuss these late breaking developments with the former us defense secretary mark esper mr. Secretary, thanks so much for joining us. The Prime Ministers office has released a statement saying, and you just heard it. But let me put it up back up at the screen. The word cabinet unanimously decided that israel continues its operation in raffa in order to exert Military Pressure on hamas, mr. Secretary, what do you make of israels strategy . You right now what im not surprised by this outcome, i was surprised when it was first reported that hamas agreed, but immediately two things became suspect. One was that the agreement was made by ismail honeywell, who is based in qatar. Hes not the guy making the decisions in gaza. Its yahya sinwar who is somewhere beneath the buildings of a rafah right now hiding out. Hes been calling the shots and gaza. So thats number one number two, it was unclear what they agreed to, what hamas agreed to, the big Sticking Point is the definition of a ceasefire israel, once a temporary ceasefire. And hamas wants a permanent cease fire. Why is that . Because because once the swap is made for israeli hostages, for Palestinian Prisoners then hamas gives up all of its leverage, which is why theyve been demanding two things. One, the removal of all israeli troops from gaza and to a permanent cease fire. Well, of course, once that happens, that means hamas will rush back into all of gaza once again, regained control and well be back to square one. So look, im not surprised. I think what happened was this morning, as you know, israel drop the leaflets, warning 100,000 goes to move out of raffa because an attack was imminent. And i think the Political Leadership of of hamas trying to put the hot potato back into israels hands said, hey, we agree to this because they wanted the ball put back in israels cord. Thats my complete speculation, will learn more in the coming days, but thats, thats what i suspect happened with as we just reprinted with Jeremy Diamond were watching these life protests in tel aviv right now. Were demonstrators are calling on Prime Minister netid to accept the deal. Is he under enormous pressure right down to accept the deal to allow at least what, 30 or 40 of the remaining israeli hostages to come back home . Yes, hes under tremendous pressure. I mean, there are two things that the israelis one and its interesting that they want to accept the deal without nobody really knowing what the deal is the pannun notknowing. But the two competing pressures in this order are number one, return of all hostages, and number two, the defeat of hamas and those two are in conflict right now. Theyve been in conflict for months. And i think if you look at polling, polling will play that out, but thats what the israeli public, once its interesting, the war cabinet unanimously did not agree to the hamas proposal. So look, this is, has been and will be continuing tough issue for israel, for Bibi Netanyahu in particular, trying to manage the different political dynamics and then on top of that, he has President Biden pushing him to do more to let more aid end. We have the report and last 48 hours or so by the World Food Program that famine has begun in the north then on top of that, you have the arab states or some discussions about are broader security arrangement between at least the israelis and the saudis. All these are pending and its putting tremendous pressure on this, on this Israeli Government. And the President Biden and his Phone Conversation with Prime Minister inside yeah, will earlier today made it clear that the us is strongly opposed israels moving in on the ground into raffa writedown because it would endanger potentially so many palestinian residents who are sheltering in rafah right down mark esper, thank you. 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Have spent much of today on the witness stand, talk a walking the jiri through the Accounting Practices at the Trump Organization. Jurors have been shown documents related to reimbursements to trumps former fixer, Michael Cohen that are at the heart of this case. Were joined now by former Nixon White House counseled on di, to talk a little bit more about this john, thanks for mean with us here, i wonder based on the testimonies of the trump 4d controller, Jeffrey Mccartney and the accounts payable employee, debra terrace off so far, if you think that they have done what the prosecution needs to do, if they have been able to create either eight papers portrayal that leads directly to former President Trump, or if they are just able to make it so unbelievable that trump, a bit of a micromanager financial flee was not involved in all of this briana. I think theyve done both. I think they have left are very strong paper trail directs the jury to just a few Unanswered Questions from which they can easily draw inferences. And i think the witnesses have done the same. Theyve put a big context and a big picture together for the jury and the case is very clear. The picture is very clear. So im not quite sure what Michael Cohen is going to testify thank to or how long theyll need him. And im was thinking here is were reading the chat, it could be disproportionate. He could be on just a short while and they spent a long time because bdm up do you think that prosecutors have been able to show that this was done to the to the end election interference, that that was the reason why this alleged crime was committed theres no question. Theyve established that with overwhelming evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, even to those who were not in the courtroom that ive been reading the transcript and it just is coming through this was all about the election hope hicks and saying, for example, that the instructor did not have the newspapers go to the red so that millennia wouldnt see them down and merrill logo when they had the negative stories that doesnt mean anything in that he it does not distract from her testimony where shes had this all happened in the period when the primary issue was the campaign how to protect the campaign from the negative publicity so its just to me very clear, and i would think itd be very difficult for any witness not to see that. Excuse me. Any juror naaf to see that protecting from negative publicity specifically after the access hollywood debacle and i wonder john, if you are the prosecution, which witness would you call next well, i think that they have to get these mechanical witnesses along the way so the defense cant say theres a gap in the case not a link here. Theyre so some of this housekeeping testimony needs to get done i think the jury is anticipating that Michael Cohen is a big witness. They are they dont know if theyre going to see stormy or karen mcdougal. So that keeps them interested as they wait and watch for the story unfold yeah, it certainly does. Well have to see who is next after Deborah Tarasoff, john dean thank you so much for being with us. And an interesting detail just in from our reporters in the courtroom, trump or employee debra terrace has returned to the standard hold that she tapped eric trumps me as she passed him. 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Next, on cnn back now to our Special Coverage of former President Trumps Hush Money Trial prosecutors calling two witnesses within inside knowledge of the Trump Organization. They started the day questioning former trump or controller jeffrey mecole, who detail the 420,000 prism payments given to trumps former lawyer, Michael Cohen wolf and brianna right now, accounts payable supervisor, deborah Terrace Office testifying. She was asked about a number of emails and invoices including one with her stamp on it and we also heard directly from judge merchan earlier in the de be ruled this morning that the former president had again violated his gag order. This for the 10th time, the judge threatening trump that any further violations potentially could good results in jail time. Ill be back in two hours, 6 00 p. M. Eastern in the situation room. The lead with jake tapper starts right now